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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “eleonora rocconi”
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  • Music

    Antiquity and Its Legacy

    by Dr Eleonora Rocconi ...
    Series series Ancients and Moderns
    This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousik**e-in all its facets-in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history. Since antiquity, music has consistently played a significant role in social and cultural life, and although the terms in which it is expressed and the cultural meanings it conveys vary dramatically across different times and geographies, the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music

    Edited by Tosca A. C. Lynch, Eleonora Rocconi ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A COMPANION TO ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN MUSICA comprehensive guide to music in Classical Antiquity and beyondDrawing on the latest research on the topic, A Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Music provides a detailed overview of the most important issues raised by the study of ancient Greek and Roman music. An international panel of contributors, including leading experts as well as emerging ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

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  • Stoicism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This Very Short Introduction provides an introductory account of Stoic philosophy, and tells the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

    Edited by James Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

    A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

    by Peter Adamson ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he traces the development of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Music as Medicine

    The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

    Edited by Peregrine Horden ...
    Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice? These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition

    Edited by John Sellars ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of study in philosophy and classics, but also in theology and literature.The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is the first volume of its kind, and an outstanding guide and reference source to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

    Edited by Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil ...
    This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point ... Read more

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  • Polyphonic Minds

    Music of the Hemispheres

    by Peter Pesic ...
    An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.Polyphony—the interweaving of simultaneous sounds—is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for how we understand the mind. In Polyphonic Minds, Peter Pesic examines the history and significance of “polyphonicity”—of “many-voicedness”—in human experience. Pesic presents the emergence of Western ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Desmond M. Clarke, Catherine Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Michael Squire ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    Textual Paths and Historical Explorations

    Edited by Lorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina ...
    ‘We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece’, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia ... Read more

    $60.99 USD